Peter Bohmer, Ph.D.

The study of Political Economy integrates anthropology,
economics,
history, law, political science, philosophy and sociology by
offering ways of understanding the
modern world and providing tools for analyzing contemporary
public problems. It focuses upon
problems related to class, race and gender - globally, nationally
and locally. Political Economy seeks to study
how such problems interweave and overlap, how they evolved, how
they are understood, how and
why certain decisions are made about them, and how these issues
impact the quality of human life.
At its best, Political Economy provides the interdisciplinary tools needed to analyze strategies for social change, historically and in
the present, and explore alternatives
to the current global system.
Major social problems are deeply grounded in theories and history
of cultural, philosophical, social,
economic and political practice. Their understanding involves
exploring basic analytic concepts and
values (freedom, equality, justice and democracy) and their
meanings today. Political Economy looks at societies as
dynamic and ever-changing systems, comparing them in different
countries and cultures and evaluating
their impacts on the everyday lives of all affected people.